Job 31:35

Bishops' Bible (1568)

O that I had one which woulde heare me: beholde my signe in the whiche the almightie shal aunswere for me, though he that is my contrarie partie hath written a booke against me.

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  • Job 13:21-22 : 21 Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde. 22 Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.
  • Job 19:23-24 : 23 O that my wordes were now written, O that they were put in a booke, 24 And grauen with an iron penne in leade, or in stone, to continue.
  • Job 23:3-7 : 3 O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate: 4 I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes: 5 I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me. 6 Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger. 7 There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.
  • Job 27:7 : 7 Therfore myne enemie shalbe founde as the vngodly, and he that taketh part against me, as the vnrighteous.
  • Job 30:28 : 28 I went mourning without heate, I stoode vp in the congregation, & communed with them.
  • Job 33:6 : 6 Beholde, before God I am euen as thou: for I am fashioned & made euen of the same molde.
  • Job 33:10-11 : 10 But lo, he hath piked a quarell against me, and taketh me for his enemie. 11 He hath put my foote in the stockes, and looketh narowlye vnto all my pathes.
  • Job 35:14 : 14 Although thou sayest to God thou wylt not regarde it: yet iudgement is before him, trust thou in him.
  • Job 38:1-3 : 1 Then aunswered the Lorde vnto Iob out of the whirle winde, and saide: 2 What is he that darkeneth his counsaile by wordes without knowledge? 3 Girde vp thy loynes lyke a man: for I wyl question with thee, see thou geue me a direct aunswere.
  • Job 40:4-5 : 4 Beholde, I am vyle, what shall I aunswere thee, therefore I wyll laye my hande vpon my mouth. 5 Once haue I spoken, but I wyll saye no more: yea twyse, but I wyl proceede no further.
  • Ps 26:1 : 1 Of Dauid. Iudge thou me O God, for I haue walked in my perfection: my trust also hath ben in God therfore I shall not fall.
  • Matt 5:25 : 25 Agree with thyne aduersarie quicklye, whyles thou art in the waye with him: lest at any tyme the aduersarie deliuer thee to the iudge, and the iudge deliuer thee to the minister, and then thou be cast into pryson.
  • Job 13:24 : 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?
  • Job 17:3 : 3 O deliuer me, and loke out one to be my suretie in thy sight: what is he that knoweth who wyll promise for me?
  • Job 19:7 : 7 If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.
  • Job 19:11 : 11 His wrath is kindled against me, he taketh me as though I were his enemie.
  • Job 13:3 : 3 Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 23:3-7
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    3O that I might know him, and finde him, and that I might come before his seate:

    4I woulde pleade my cause before hym, and fill my mouth with argumentes:

    5I woulde knowe what aunswere he woulde geue me, and vnderstande what he woulde say vnto me.

    6Will he pleade against me with his great power? No, but he will make me the stronger.

    7There the righteous might dispute with him, so shoulde I be deliuered for euer from my iudge.

  • Job 6:8-10
    3 verses
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    8O that I might haue my desire, and that God woulde graunt me the thing that I long for:

    9O that God would begin and smite me, that he would let his hand go and take me cleane away:

    10Then shoulde I haue some comfort, yea I woulde desire him in my payne that he would not spare, for I wil not be against the wordes of the holy one.

  • Job 31:36-38
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    36Yet will I take it vpon my shoulder, & as a garlande binde it about my head.

    37I will tell hym the number of my goinges, & go vnto him as to a prince.

    38But if case be that my lande crye against me, or that the forowes thereof make any complaynt:

  • 3Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.

  • 23O that my wordes were now written, O that they were put in a booke,

  • Job 33:31-32
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    31Marke wel O Iob, and heare me: hold thee still, and I will speake.

    32But if thou hast any thing to say, then aunswere me, and speake: for I desire to iustifie thee.

  • 5But O that God woulde speake, and open his lippes against thee:

  • 21O that a body might pleate with God, as one man doth with an other:

  • 36O father, let Iob be well tryed, because he hath aunswered for wicked men:

  • 22Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.

  • Job 9:15-16
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    15For though I were righteous, yet might I not geue him one word againe, but mekely submit my selfe to hym as my iudge.

    16If I had called vpon hym, and he had aunswered me, yet woulde I not beleue that he hearde my voyce:

  • 1Wherefore heare my wordes O Iob, and hearken vnto all that I will say:

  • 19What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.

  • 34Though I coulde haue made afeard a great multitude, yet the most contemptible of the families dyd feare me: so I kept scilence, and went not out of the doore.

  • 4O hearken thou vnto me also, and let me speake: aunswere vnto the thing that I wyll aske thee.

  • 5If thou canst then geue me aunswere, prepare thy selfe and stande before me face to face.

  • 7If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

  • Job 6:1-2
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    1But Iob aunswered, and sayde:

    2O that my complaynt were truely wayed, and my punishment layde in the balaunces together:

  • 15Thou shalt call me and I shall aunswere thee, despise not thou the worke of thyne owne handes.

  • 5But if ye wyll aduaunce your selues against me, and rebuke me for the shame that is come vpon me:

  • 8Now hast thou spoken in myne eares, & I haue heard the voyce of thy wordes:

  • 2Take heede vnto me, and heare me: I can not choose but mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse.

  • Job 21:3-4
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    3Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on.

    4Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble?

  • 32For he that I must geue aunswere vnto, and with whom I go to the lawe, is not a man as I am:

  • 35And then shall I aunswere hym without any feare: but because I am not so, I holde me still.

  • 8But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde, and talke with God?

  • 13Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

  • 14When God will sit in iudgement, what shall I do? & when he will visite me, what aunswere shal I geue him?

  • 19If men will speake of strength, lo he is strong: if men will speake of iudgement, who shall bring me in to pleade?

  • 15Beholde, these men say vnto me, where is the worde of the Lorde? let it come nowe.

  • 9Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him?

  • 3I haue sufficiently heard the checking of my reproofe, therefore the spirite of myne vnderstanding causeth me to aunswere.

  • 20Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • 34Let men of vnderstanding tell me, and let a wyse man hearken vnto me.

  • 10But lo, he hath piked a quarell against me, and taketh me for his enemie.

  • 8He is at hande that iustifieth me, who wyll then go with me to lawe? Let vs stande together, yf there be any that will reason with me? let hym come here foorth to me.

  • 6Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes.